The most beautiful monasteries in the world

The order is measured, not chosen. For every monasteries we count how many photographs exist on Wikimedia Commons and, more importantly, how many different people took them: one enthusiast can upload forty frames of the same subject, but forty people photograph it only when it is genuinely worth the trip. Frames that Commons editors themselves marked Featured, Quality or Valued count for more, because that judgement was already made by people who look at photographs for a living. Every entry says what its rank is made of.

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Wat Chaiwatthanaram9 TH

Wat Chaiwatthanaram

371 photographs by 57 photographers · 1 Featured picture, 1× Quality image · 50 photographs in three years by 6 people

Evilarry · Public domain

Ayios Ionannis25 CY

Ayios Ionannis

Μονή Αγίου Ιωάννου του Λαμπαδιστού

  • UNESCO World Heritage

59 photographs by 9 photographers · 3× Quality image · 17 photographs in three years by 2 people

Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0

Horezu monastery27 RO

Horezu monastery

Mănăstirea Horezu

  • UNESCO World Heritage

305 photographs by 22 photographers · 54 photographs in three years by 4 people

seriykotik1970 from Moscow Russia · Public domain

English